Civil Rights Pivotal Moments & Terminology Practice Quiz Questions

Honors America In the World Moodle quiz questions

announced that there would be no slavery in any state of the Untied States

13th amendment

Ruled that public schools must be desegregated with “all deliberate speed”

Brown V Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

declared that no person shall have the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of being a slave

15th Amendment

freed slaves in all territories held by states in rebellion with the Union during the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

Forbade discrimination in housing based on race

Civil Rights Act of 1968

to judge beforehand

Prejudice

Separation of groups by law or institution

de jure segregation

the belief in racial superiority

racism

outlawed the poll tax

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Separation of groups that occurs by choice and/or tradition

de facto segregation

allowed federal officials to register voters in states where local officials practiced discrimination

Voting Rights Act of 1965

1896 Supreme Court case that established the “Separate but Equal” clause, allowing for state governments to create segregationist laws and policies, also known as “Jim Crow”

Plessy v. Ferguson

to notice a difference and to treat differently

discrimination

prohibits the states from denying rights and privileges of citizenship to any citizen; extended citizenship to blacks

14th Amendment

forbade discrimination in public facilities, such as restaurants and parks, and in the use of federal funds

Civil Rights Act of 1964